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Maheswaran, Muthucumaru; Malozemoff, Alexis J.; Ng, Daniel Jun Xian; Liao, Sheng; Gu, Song; Maniymaran, Balasubramaneyam; Raymond, Julie; Shaikh, Reehan; Gao, Yuanyuan

doi:10.1145/1539024.1508880

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“…With the goal of supporting easy experimentation and teaching of networking concepts, many projects offer a user interface that allows to create and configure complex networks while hiding the details of the underlying virtualization technologies (the authors of [23] advocate 'more novelty, less grunt work'). Some of these projects even provide the user with a graphical user interface, such as CORE [24,25], IMUNES [26,27], Marionnet [28,29], EstiNet (formerly NCTUns) [30], GINI [31,32], and Cloonix [33]. CORE emulates networks by using abstraction functions offered by the underlying operating system (Linux or BSD), without creating complete virtual machines.…”

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Netkit: network emulation for education

Pizzonia

Rimondini

2014

Softw Pract Exp

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Summary In the era of virtualization, virtual networking plays an important role. Besides production use, virtual networking can be effectively adopted in many other contexts where accurate emulation of functionalities is important, like testing before deployment, evaluation of what‐if scenarios, research, and, increasingly, didactics. In this paper, we describe our 10‐year experience in designing, implementing, using, and maintaining Netkit, an environment for simple, inexpensive, and lightweight network emulation targeted at didactics. We analyze the peculiar requirements in this context and discuss how the architecture chosen for Netkit is tailored to fulfill them. We show that Netkit is particularly well suited for a quick preparation of complex network scenarios comprising a wide range of networking technologies. These scenarios can be specified using configuration languages that are similar to those used on real devices and, once set up, can be easily distributed via email or published on the Web. Netkit comes with a rich set of ready‐to‐use pre‐configured networks, accompanied by lecture slides that enable users to immediately experiment with specific case studies. To complete the picture, we report our experience in supporting and fostering the growth of the community of users revolving around Netkit: more than 15 educational institutions worldwide take advantage of Netkit, allowing teachers and students to practice with realistic networks without the need of expensive laboratories. We also detail how we profitably use Netkit within advanced academic‐level networking courses and related examinations at the Roma Tre University. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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confidence: 99%

Netkit: network emulation for education

Pizzonia

Rimondini

2014

Softw Pract Exp

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Wireless GINI: an educational platform for hosting virtual wireless networks

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Maheswaran

Youssef

2016

Softw. Pract. Exper.

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Summary We describe Wireless GINI, a wireless platform for hosting virtual networks. Wireless GINI Is Not Internet (GINI) allows each virtual network to define its own topology and network configuration, while amortizing costs by sharing the physical infrastructure. The platform also creates mechanisms to readily integrate physical wireless devices into a deployed network. The platform supports a diverse combination of network elements that are all integrated into one custom Internet. The platform seamlessly integrates process‐emulated components running on the user machine, wireless mesh overlays deployed on the wireless platform, and generic wireless devices connected to the user's custom network. Wireless GINI provides a user‐friendly interface that makes the physical setup process completely transparent to the user. A centralized server is used to provide this transparency, handle user requests, and automatically provision the shared physical infrastructure. We describe the design and implementation of Wireless GINI. Moreover, we evaluate the performance of the platform and suggest several educational experiments that can be conducted on this new platform. A detailed survey of the existing toolkits and platforms and a comparison with Wireless GINI are also provided. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Ethernet switch/terminal simulators for novices to learn computer networks

Kanada

2015

2015 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN)

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Netkit: network emulation for education

Netkit: network emulation for education

Wireless GINI: an educational platform for hosting virtual wireless networks

Ethernet switch/terminal simulators for novices to learn computer networks

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